Podcast: NTT Research President and CEO Kazu Gomi

Kazuhiro (Kazu) Gomi, president and CEO of NTT Research, joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser on this episode to discuss the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative. This effort, first announced last year, is taking steps to build a new kind of optical network, with improvements in silicon photonics, edge computing and connected computing.

This NTT subsidiary, in cooperation with Intel, Sony and others, wants a new network to provide massive amounts of bandwidth while operating at lower power and with lower latency. This ambitious effort isn't just about building new optical networks; it's also intended to create a "better world for all global citizens."

After acquiring the QuickPlay assets from AT&T and shifting to a cloud-native architecture, the video streaming specialist will now rekindle its biz-to-biz ambitions and chase deals with pay-TV providers and pure-play OTTs.

Edgewater makes its own silicon and access points, but the company is also looking to license its technology to suppliers seeking to differentiate their Wi-Fi products, says president and CEO Andrew Skafel.